Re: Re: first attempt to run mp (system error)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:27 08/10/2003, you wrote:

>Yes, indeed! But compiling code
>
>         beginfig(100)
>         fill unitsquare scaled 123 withcolor (.2,.3,.4);
>         endfig;
>         end

\starttext \startMPpage
...
\stopMPpage \stoptext

The last alert means "Memory violating". A remedy for such problems is
>to regenerate the format. However the wrong metafun format was generated
>with fmtutil and its default settings... Anyway I have regenerated
>metafun format with command:

are you on windows or on linux?

>         texexec --make --alone metafun
>
>Under linux the problem is even stranger. Running 'texexec --automprun
>--pdf sample.tex' produce (as in windows) proper postscript code
>mpgraph.1 (properly interpreted and displayed by ghostscript). But
>running 'mpost mpgraph.mp' under linux still causes the "Memory
>violating" error. PDF output also doesn't contain the graphic.
>
>Unfortunately mpgraph.log is empty (zero length file) and tex log file
>doesn't inform about any problems.
>
>I'm afraid there are at least two independent problems: no graphic in
>PDF output and "Memory violating" error (regenerating format can't help
>here).

ok, take one of:

www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex.zip
www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip

(some 20Meg)

this is what's needed for running context

in there you'll find

setuptex
setuptex.bat

on linux, make sure that you "chmod -R 755 *" the tree first

the windows file has formats, in it (i'll remove them some day) but for 
linux you need to generate them.

If all goes well, you'll have a system running now.

(this one has tl8 binaries)

Later i'll put the tree's on the site so that people can mirror them

Hans